Local music’s (near) future is digital
If you want to support Sac bands during stay at home order, you can go to Bandcamp, an online music platform waiving its fees today…
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Gardening is ‘essential’
Local nurseries and community gardens are staying open during stay at home order In the greater scheme of our new normal, gardening is “essential.” During…
Essay: The right solar power
SMUD is on the wrong track on clean energy By Lee Miller I am surprised at the misinformation SMUD pumped out about its SolarShares program…
The loss of third space
Stay at home order puts neighborhood gatherings on hold By Lindsay Oxford In February at Oak Park’s monthly Fix-it-Café, sewing machines whirred at one table…
Ask Joey: Dating during coronavirus
While you’re sheltering in place, don’t kowtow to the kind of boredom or loneliness that motivates you to download dating apps you once swore off….
Editor’s note: Will we pass this test?
Because Sacramento isn’t home to many millionaires, it’s going to take all of us to get through the corornavirus shutdown The coronavirus pandemic is an…
A balanced plan for roads and transit?
A half-cent sales tax measure took a big step toward November ballot A far-reaching spending blueprint for roads and transit in Sacramento County took a…
Spring into staying home
Everything fun is canceled now. Concerts, sports, going out. It’s all for the best—social distancing is necessary to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. To…
Will coronavirus take down California’s economy?
As the stock market tumbled and oil prices collapsed on March 9, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top economic officials sought to project calm from the world’s…
Assisted living—or sitting ducks?
News that the first coronavirus-related death in Sacramento County occurred in an Elk Grove home for the elderly raised the specter that the disease, which…
Where will hungry students eat?
It feels almost silly to mention now that we’re living in a contagious hellscape, but there was an election on March 3 and at some…
No more eating out
Illustration by Maria Ratinova As President Donald Trump sent us into the weekend under national emergency due to the spread of coronavirus, some Sacramento restaurants…
On the front lines
As California’s coronavirus strategy has moved from containment to mitigation, the health care workers on the first line of response to the epidemic are also…
Patience zero
Photo by Graham Womack Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee board president John Kraintz sits after a March 11 continuum of care meeting. John Kraintz has struggled…
Bracing for financial impact
By Scott Thomas Anderson On March 13, the coronavirus response came to City Hall with the City Council holding an emergency meeting in an empty…
Quarantine grandma?
“Social distancing.” In this time of coronavirus, it sounds straightforward: Avoid crowds. Don’t shake hands. If you’re 65 or older, isolate yourself at home. If…
Folsom city miscues
What if Folsom announced an emergency City Council meeting one hour before it started, chose not to livestream it despite having the capability to do…